Top 38 Pirsig Quality Quotes
#1. My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that's all.
Robert M. Pirsig
#3. I'd learned a little about nuclear war from duck-and-cover air-raid drills at school, but most of what I knew about the Russians came from the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show on TV.
Todd Strasser
#4. Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling onto others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep going.
Robert M. Pirsig
#5. We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be new horizons continually awaiting us.
Michio Kaku
#6. To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.
Robert M. Pirsig
#7. It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage in artistic development. Create out of a living spirituality to overcome everything naturalistic.
Rudolf Steiner
#8. The dictum that Science and its offspring, technology, are "value free," that is, "quality free," has got to go.
Robert M. Pirsig
#9. She looked at him, beautiful Kazimir whose smile used to work on her like a summons, compelling her to his side.
Laini Taylor
#10. I just go wherever work brings me. I share a house with friends in L.A., and I share a house with friends in Montreal when I'm there.
Francois Arnaud
#12. If Quality were dropped, only rationality would remain unchanged.
Robert M. Pirsig
#13. The sun of quality does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has CREATED them. They are subordinate to IT.
Robert M. Pirsig
#14. Care and Quality are internal and external aspects of the same thing. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristic of quality.
Robert M. Pirsig
#15. If you want to build a factory, or fix a motorcycle, or set a nation right without getting stuck, then classical, structured, dualistic subject-object knowledge, although necessary, isn't enough. You have to have some feeling for the quality of the work. You have to have a sense of what's good.
Robert M. Pirsig
#16. Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.
Blaise Pascal
#17. When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness
Deepak Chopra
#18. Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.
Robert M. Pirsig
#19. May, will you please, kindly DIG it," he remembered one of them saying, "and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar questions? If you got to ask what IS it all the time, you'll never get time to KNOW.
Robert M. Pirsig
#20. Dating has taught me what I want and don't want, who I am, and who I want to be.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
#21. And because without objects there can be no subject-- because the objects create the subject's awareness of himself-- quality is the event at which awareness of both subjects and objects is made possible.
Robert Pirsig
#22. Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Robert M. Pirsig
#23. The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique.
Mick Taylor
#24. You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to say that we dont know everything. And since we dont know everything, we must accept that another person may believe something else.
Mitch Albom
#25. Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is.
Robert M. Pirsig
#26. Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology ... Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality.
Robert M. Pirsig
#27. A person who sees Quality and feels it as he works is a person who cares. A person who cares about what he sees and does is a person who's bound to have some characteristics of Quality
Robert M. Pirsig
#29. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
Robert M. Pirsig
#30. The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
Samuel George Morton
#31. Quality is a characteristic of thought and statement that is recognized by a nonthinking process. Because definitions are a product of rigid, formal thinking, quality cannot be defined.
Robert M. Pirsig
#32. Now, to take that which has caused us to create the world, and include it within the world we have created, is clearly impossible. This is why Quality cannot be defined. If we do define it, we are defining something less than Quality itself.
Robert M. Pirsig
#33. Writing it seemed to have higher quality than not writing it, that was all.
Robert M. Pirsig
#34. Then I read this: "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven" (Matthew 5:43-45). That's it! I was thunderstruck
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#35. My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with ... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
Candis Cayne
#36. Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.
Robert M. Pirsig
#38. You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.
Robert M. Pirsig
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